2 October 1866: born at Brighton to John Benjamin Figgis (1837–1916), minister of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion, and Harriett Webb Figgis (1840–1914).
1881–1885: day student at Brighton College
1885–8: Scholarship to read Mathematics at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
1888: Graduated senior optime (second class).
1889: Graduated with first class honours in history (under the influence of F. W. Maitland and Lord Acton).
1890: Lightfoot Scholarship
1891: Second Whewell Scholarship
1892: Prince Consort Prize for essay on the divine right of kings
1892: Graduated MA
1894: Wells Theological College
1894: Ordained deacon in the diocese of Peterborough by Bishop Mandell Creighton
1894–5: Curacy at Kettering, Northamptonshire
1895: Ordained Priest by Mandell Creighton
1895–1898: Curacy at Great St Mary’s, Cambridge (University Church)
1895–1901: Lecturer at St Catharine’s College
1896: The Theory of the Divine Right of Kings
1897–9: Editor of the Cambridge Review
1898–1900: Chaplain at Pembroke College, Cambridge
1899–1901: Chaplain at St Catharine’s College
1900: Birkbeck Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge
1902: Breakdown in mental health
1902–7: Rector of Marnhull, Dorset
1902: English History illustrated from original sources 1660–1715
1904: Christianity and History
1906: publication of edition (with R. V. Laurence) of Lord Acton, Lectures on Modern History
1907: Studies of Political Thought From Gerson to Grotius
1907: Received into the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield, Yorkshire
1907: publication of edition (with R. V. Laurence) of Lord Acton, Historical Essays and Studies
1908: Cambridge D.Litt.
1908–9: Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge
5 January 1909: Final Profession in the Community of the Resurrection
1909: honorary Fellowship of St Catharine’s College
1909: The Gospel and Human Needs being the Hulsean lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge, 1908–9 with additions
1909: publication of edition (with R. V. Laurence) of Lord Acton, The History of Freedom and Other Essays
1910: Religion and English Society: Two addresses delivered at a conference held in London, November 9th and 10th, 1910.
1910: publication of edition (with R. V. Laurence) of Lord Acton, Lectures on the French Revolution
1911: Noble Lecturer, Harvard University
1912: Civilisation at the Cross Roads: Four lectures delivered before Harvard University in the year 1911 on the William Belden Noble foundation
1913: Awarded a Glasgow D.D.
1913: Bishop Paddock Lecturer, General Theological Seminary, New York
1913: Antichrist and other sermons
1913: Churches in the Modern State
1913: First Warden of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd
1914: Oxford lectures on Bishop Bossuet
1914: The Fellowship of the Mystery: The Bishop Paddock Lectures, 1913
1915: Times of Refreshing
1915: Brose Lecturer, Lake Forest, Illinois
1916: Some Defects in English Religion and Other Sermons
1917: The Will to Freedom: or the gospel of Nietzsche and the gospel of Christ; being the Bross lectures delivered in Lake Forest College, Illinois
1917: publication of edition (with R. V. Laurence) of Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, Vol. 1: correspondence with Cardinal Newman, Lady Blennerhassett, W. E. Gladstone and others
1917: operation on arthritic knee
28 January 1918: shipwrecked off the coast of Antrim while travelling to the United States aboard the RMS Andania; manuscript on Bossuet lost
1918: Pringle-Stewart lectures at Oxford on The Political Aspects of St Augustine’s ‘De civitate’
13 April 1919: Died after severe mental illness at Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water. First member of the Community of the Resurrection to be buried in the new cemetery at Mirfield
1919: Hopes for English Religion
1921: The Political Aspects of S. Augustine’s ‘City of God’
Timeline prepared by Mark D. Chapman